Before Rufus left, he taught me a simple seafood dish as a gustatio:
Mussels in Sweet Wine Sauce
Mix liquamen, chopped leek, cumin, savory and sweet wine, dilute with water and cook the mussels in it.
Master loved it. So did the mistress. They loved it so much that they dispatched one of the servants to the coast to hire a fisherman to gather mussels exclusively for them. The first batch came in this morning, and the master was in a very good spirit for the entire day. "Mussel man," we call him in the kitchen now.
